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Smut: An 1883 Obscenity Trial and Its Echoes Today
By Carol Kammen
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By Carol Kammen
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"An engrossing tale well told."
—Mary Beth Norton, author of Liberty's Daughters and The Devil's Snare
"Kammen's writing is engaging throughout, and her argument connecting 1883 to the present day is persuasive. A narrow slice of local history that opens, unexpectedly, onto the present."
—Kirkus Reviews
In June, 1883, Jefferson and Helen Beardsley of Ithaca, New York, were tried and sentenced for "selling and exhibiting obscene pictures." In Smut, Carol Kammen draws directly from the trial tran...
—Mary Beth Norton, author of Liberty's Daughters and The Devil's Snare
"Kammen's writing is engaging throughout, and her argument connecting 1883 to the present day is persuasive. A narrow slice of local history that opens, unexpectedly, onto the present."
—Kirkus Reviews
In June, 1883, Jefferson and Helen Beardsley of Ithaca, New York, were tried and sentenced for "selling and exhibiting obscene pictures." In Smut, Carol Kammen draws directly from the trial tran...